William strong



(No Model.)

W. STRONG.

SHOWER ATTACHMENT FOR BATH TUBS.

Patented May 4, 1886.

\MI NIEEIS: m

wm a. K/ZZM siderable expense.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM STRONG, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES ANESHAENSEL, J R., OF SAME PLACE.

SHOWER ATTACHMENT FOR BATH-TUBS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 341,183, dated May 4, 1886.

Application filed August 10, 1885. Serial No. 173,973. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shower Attachments for Bath-Tubs, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore the shower device connected .with bath-tubs was either stationary-a pipe running from the bath-tub supply up on the wall of the room or on a board fixed for that purpose, and at a certain height branching over the bath-tub ending in a downward showeror it consisted of a detachable flexible hose, terminating in a sprinkler or shower, which hose had to be connected with the bath-bib whenever the shower was to be used and disconnected when supply was needed in the bath-tub. The objections to the former kind of a shower device were as follows: Cocks for hot and cold water had to be provided in the supply-pipes to the shower, thus creating con- If these cocks were not always closed tightly after using the shower, or if the same became leaking in the least degree, the drippings from the shower discolored and injured the bath-tub, making it nearlyimpossibleto keep thesameclean and bright. To the detachable hose and shower device the following objections were found to exist: The handling of the hose and its heavy showercasting more or less injured the bath-tub lining and the surrounding wood-work. If by carelessness the shower were allowed to drop into the tub, the same became disfigured, and in someinstances leaking. Further, the shower not being stationary right over the bath-tub, careless persons, especially in public bathhonses, in handling the shower wetted and injured the surrounding furniture and woodwork. I overcome all these objections by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows the end of a bath-tub and its supply-cocks, the shower, and the showerconnection.

A is the bath-tub; G, the common combination bath-bib and cooks for hot and cold water.

B is a stationary vertical pipe starting from to which is screwed one end of a rubber or flexible hose, R. The other end of this hose It must be attached, when the shower is to be used, to the bath-bib G, and is hung up or sup ported, when not thus connected, by a hook or bracket, H, located at a convenient place near the pipe B.

By'using the stationary pipe and shower B b the liability of wetting the surroundings and of injuring the lining and wood-work of the bathtub, which invariably follows the use of a detachable rubber hose and shower, is avoided; and by using a detachable rubber hoseconnection between the bottom end of the fixed shower-pipe B and the bath-bib cock 0, I am enahledto turn thesupplyinto the shower without the use of separate shower-cocks, as necessary in the shower devices now in use with stationary pipe and sprinkler, and I avoid the inconveniences caused by the leaking of such cocks. Thus my shower attach mcnt possesses the advantages of both the stationary and the detachable shower device, and overcomes the objections raised to either of them.

Having thus fully described my improve ments, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the wall, of the metal pipe B, attached vertically thereto and bent inwardly at its upper and lower ends and ex tending from a point just above the tub to the desired height, a shower attachment on the inner upper end of the pipe, and a short flexi- -ble tube connected with the lower end of said WILLIAM STRONG.

Witnesses:

CHARLES ANESHAENSEL, Jr. THEODORE LANGBEIN. 

